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robthewordsmith |
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January 08, 2010 03:00:07pm |
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Re: Kimock as Bogart |
It's more likely that Kimock got turned on to Garcia - from a 1998 Enterzone interview with Kimock:
The Jerry Garcia Thing
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Deadheads sometimes used to refer to the keyboard role in that band as the "hotseat," because a number of keyboard players passed through the band and not all of them survived. It seems to me like the lead guitar role in the Dead has got to be a hotter hotseat than the keyboards, as it were.
SK
I really do not think of it like that at all. I don't think there's any amount of pressure that could be brought to bear on my thinking about it that could be greater than the pressure I put on myself anyway just to play.
I knew Jerry Garcia. I didn't know him well, but we hung out and we talked, and we played a couple of times. He dug where I was coming from and I dug where he was coming from, and we kind of worked the same side of the street. When he died, I had the weirdest kind of feeling about it. Remember the Maltese Falcon, where Humphrey Bogart's partner gets snuffed by the girl? It was like that. I felt like I had to do something, like I couldn't just let it be that Jerry was dead, that the music was not happening or something.
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So there's this feeling of obligation or responsibility.
SK
Yeah, it was like a work thing. It wasn't like an emotional thing. It was like a work thing. It was like, it doesn't look good. It's not good for business. Just like in the movie, you know? It's not good for anybody, not to do something about your partner getting killed. It's the Humphrey Bogart thing. I was being totally Humphrey Bogart about it. And then Vince all fell apart, and we picked him up, "Come on, let's go play," and got him playing.
The whole Jerry Garcia issue for me, again, has followed me around and followed me around. He played in a style, and yeah, he was Jerry Garcia, and yeah, he was the best guy in that style, but it wouldn't be any different if it was B.B. King, and there was only one blues band, right? and it was B.B. King's band, and B.B. King died, and they needed to get a guitar player because you gotta have some guitar. Well, then you'd get a guy that played the blues with a friggin' hollow-bodied guitar, you know?
There's some kind of West Coast psychedelic improvisational music style that Garcia played in, and he was obviously the king of that thing, but it was still a style, and John Cipollina played in that style. He was a West Coast psychedelic improvisation kind of guy. There's a bunch of guys. Jerry Miller was another one. Terry Haggerty was one of those guys who would just go for it, and get out. Obviously Garcia's contributions, just to the culture and the Dead and everything like that, are immeasurable, but he did play in a style, and I play in that style.
When you hang out in a room full of people and they've all got colds, you catch a cold. And when you hang out in a room full of people who are playing a certain way, you catch that too. And I did the thing with Merl, and I did the thing with Nicky Hopkins, and I did the thing with Cipollina. I did the thing with all the same people. John Kahn. All the same time, the same style of music, and did not have any success doing it, none. Zero success. And I've either been living in a car, or living in a tree, or camping on somebody's couch since '75, since I got to California. The pressure to maintain some kind of integrity to play in that kind of music and to do that improvisational small-band thing without any rewards is a lot more pressure to maintain than what does it feel like to be playing with these guys or being in Jerry Garcia's place or something like that. That's not it.
Link if you want to check out the whole thing:
http://ezone.org/interviews/kimock/intro.html
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amellowsoul |
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January 11, 2010 04:41:54am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: and now for something competely WEIRD |
Nice to see the "Cipollina" slot fulls a lot of things. ;-) I cleared him and "Dinosaurs" with offical sources, and that's why we are able to share.
Been about 2 years since I have added a show, but I do have plenty more to offer! It would be best to ask some of my sources that it's okay for me to do so, but the file name change, the making of a new MD5, et al.
I also tell Steve K. & crew on the offical John Cipollina site when I post a show. It was kinda an unspoken part of the deal. I highly suggest anyone else who does upload to the same.
THANKS VERY MUCH for keeping it going. This is a great show and terribly unique show.
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